Ping Multiple Servers And Show The Output In Top-like Text UI

A while ago, we wrote about “Fping” utility which enables us to ping multiple hosts at once. Unlike the traditional “Ping” utility, Fping doesn’t wait for one host’s timeout. It uses round-robin method. Meaning – It will send the ICMP Echo request to one host, then move to the another host and finally display which hosts are up or down at a time. Today, we are going to discuss about a similar utility named “Pingtop”. As the name says, it will ping multiple servers at a time and show the result in Top-like Terminal UI. It is free and open source, command line program written in Python.

Install Pingtop

Pingtop can be installed using Pip, a package manager to install programs developed in Python. Make sure sure you have installed Python 3.7.x and Pip in your Linux box.